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#268 Thordur Arnason on Why Capgemini Is Building an AI Speech Translator
32 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Intro
Professional Background and Journey with Capgemini
Capgemini Overview
Launching BabelSpeak
Long-Term Vision
Reasoning For Particular Use Case
Pilot Projects
Partnership with Nvidia and Telenor
Consulting Insights on Rapid Prototyping and AI Development
The Moat for B2B/B2C Translation Products
Sovereign Computing Initiatives
AI Infrastructure in Norway
Understanding Agentic AI
Development of No-Code Agentic Tools
Regulatory Considerations
Market Dynamics and Predictions
Roadmap
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Thordur Arnason, Global AI GTM Lead at Capgemini Invent, joins SlatorPod to talk about how the consulting giant is embracing language AI through BabelSpeak, its new real-time AI speech translation platform. Thordur explains that the idea emerged from Capgemini’s AI Futures Lab while researching multimodal AI. Inspired by Meta’s launch of the Seamless M4T model, the team set out to tackle the hard problem of live AI speech translation. He notes that early pilots with DNB Bank, the Norwegian Re...